Robin Wright Talks Feature
Directorial Debut, Land

By Iain Blair

Over her career as an actress, Robin Wright has worked with many of Hollywood's top directors, including Rob Reiner, David Fincher, Robert Zemeckis and M. Night Shyamalan. But while performing in front of the camera, this award-winning actress has also been quietly building her directing resume. In addition to playing the formidable Claire Underwood in House of Cards, Wright served as an executive producer and directed several episodes over all six seasons, including the series finale.

Now Wright has directed her first feature film, Land, in which she also stars. It's a powerful and confident debut, and a beautifully shot and directed movie that follows the journey of Edee Holzer (Wright), newly widowed and stunned by tragedy, who jettisons her old life in exchange for a spartan cabin and a solitary existence in the remote mountain wilderness of Wyoming.

I recently spoke with Wright about making and posting the film.

How did you prep for your feature directorial debut?
My main prep was with my DP, Bobby Bukowski, and that collaboration was key. We had many meetings and watched movies that had inspired us, and we talked in-depth about how we wanted it to look and feel when the character has all these elliptical memories. We'd share a lot as we were picking the shot lists, the lenses and so on. He was very big on mood boards, so we'd get to see how scenes would look and feel.

Tell us about post. Where did you do it?
We began in New York at Harbor, but COVID hit halfway through, and we had to shut down. So everyone flew home, and I had to finish post remotely via Zoom. That was very hard, as I'd never gone through editing and sound and color grading like that.

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